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Building Information Modeling (BIM) and Facility Management (FM)
Knowledge Management and Information Tools for Building Maintenance and Facility Managemen, 2016
The aim of this chapter is to introduce the main aspects and needs of the relation between the Building Information Modeling (BIM) methodology and the Facility Management (FM) sector. In fact FM activities, which nowadays are negatively influenced by the fragmentation within the construction industry and the inadequate information exchange between Project Lifecycle Phases (PLPs), can be improved and addressed by the synchronized and collaborative nature of BIM which works as a lifecycle and interdisciplinary 3D data store. Although benefits of an efficient knowledge and process management by using BIM to support FM activities, the adoption of this new methodology for asset management and facility maintenance has been overlooked for a while. Nevertheless, recently the BIM potentiality to overcome the traditional uncertainty in the information management of the built environment and to improve deficient documentation prevalent in existing buildings has boosted the research focus towards this direction. In particular many research groups are working at defining the information requirement of BIM objects as useful for FM activities.
BIM for Facility Management: Challenges and Research Gaps
This writing presents research gaps in the area of Building Information Modelling (BIM) in Facility Management (FM) industry, and identifies practical challenges that facility management professionals are facing in utilizing BIM. Although this issue, BIM for Facility Management, has gained attention both in literature and practice, and it is highly demanded in FM industry, still it is far away from effective implementation. It is not clear for facility manager whether BIM is helpful to accelerate the process or it is a cost effective solution, and what skills are required for them. The key for effective BIM implementation in FM industry is to enhance collaboration among different parties in project lifecycle. However, still there is a doubt about the importance of FM in Construction industry. In other words, construction does not understand FM. Furthermore, there are issues over interoperability and data exchange. Thus, to assist BIM implementation, it is required to prove the correctness of benefits, uses, and challenges identified in the literature. This paper uses an intensive literature review and highlights the potential research issues in terms of BIM for FM to assist effective implementation of BIM in facility management phase of projects.
2019
Adoption of Building Information Modeling (BIM) in Facility Management (FM) is effective for integrating Architecture, Engineering, and Construction (AEC) for providing better services to the end-users of a project for a whole lifecycle. Real estate sector in India has witnessed high growth in recent times with the rise in demand for commercial as well as residential spaces. Most of them are facing issues related to AEC and are not been able to manage such on-site problems resulting in delaying of projects. It is better to develop proper coordination to provide integrated information about AEC in advance to reduce conflicts occurring during the construction and operational phase. The operational phase of a building is the main contributor to the building lifecycle cost and estimates show that the lifecycle cost is five to seven times higher than the initial investment costs and three times the construction cost. There is a lack of real-life case studies on BIM in FM especially for existing assets even though new constructions representing only 1-2 percent of the total building stock in a typical year. So a case study of a commercial project is taken for Facility Management using BIM as a tool and analyzed for probable solutions for mitigating AEC conflicts. The findings from the study demonstrate that BIM value in FM stems from improvement to current manual processes of information handover; improvement to the accuracy of FM data, to the accessibility of FM data and in work order execution ultimately improving the sustainability of building construction projects.
Building Information Modeling (BIM) for Facilities Management – Literature Review and Future Needs
IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology, 2014
Facilities management (FM) is a discipline comprising of various operations, activities and maintenance services to support the main functions of an in-use building or facility. It demands comprehensive sets of information about the facility. While various FM information systems are currently being used to manage such information, the multifarious graphical and nongraphical information stored in Building Information Models (BIM) from the pre-use phase have not been sufficiently integrated in existing FM systems. BIM, with its visualization, interoperability and information exchange capabilities, can streamline FM activities. Hence, use of BIM for FM has gained global research interest. This paper analyzes this trend based on qualitative analysis of the state-of-art literature on the topic. In particular, this paper scrutinizes the nature of BIM and FM within their variety of functions and interactions. The analysis concentrates on the value-adding potential of BIM and reports the findings to designate the benefits of BIM for FM, and assess potential challenges that are hindering the effective use of BIM in FM.
Journal of Building Engineering, 2019
Despite the fact that the value of extending Building Information Modeling (BIM) implementation through the operations and maintenance phase is simply to reduce the operations and maintenance costs associated with inadequate interoperability, facilities management information flow is neither automated nor seamless. Facility managers do not normally use BIM models data, since they claim that BIM models either do not include their information requirements, or contain a huge amount of superfluous data which makes the data exchange process tedious and overwhelming. Construction Operations Building information exchange (COBie) is developed to improve the facility data handover and to support facilities management systems. However, COBie add-in existing applications have their inherent limitation to generate all facilities management required data, particularly spare, resource and job data sheets, in which a manual data entry is still required. Through a series of interviews with industry practitioners, this paper analyses current data exchange practices as well as proposed a conceptual interoperability framework for seamless data exchange between BIM models and facilities management systems. A proposed database information system that automatically generates a rich COBie spreadsheet by linking BIM data models via the Industry Foundation Classes (IFC) model to facilities management information provided by various sources. The proposed framework supplements the existing body of knowledge in facilities management domain by providing a system that facilitates seamless data transfer between BIM and facilities management systems. Facilities management organisations and owners can use this approach to decrease the redundant activity of manual data entry and focus their efforts on productive maintenance activities.
The demand of Building Information Modelling (BIM) is increasing recently as much international organisation and government taking the initiative to promote BIM in building life-cycle. Although the implementation of BIM is not an easy thing, BIM promising to benefits of efficient Information Management (IM) in Facilities Management (FM). There will be the improvement of the quality of life (QOL) in the workplace when adopting BIM in FM that encompasses multiple discipline to ensure higher functionality of the built environment by integrating people, place, processes and technology. In this studies, the opportunities acquire by the organisation implement BIM in FM for the benefit of QOL in the workplace are reviewed.
IOP Conference Series: Materials Science and Engineering, 2020
Building Information Modelling (BIM) for facilities management (FM) benefits the owner the most by increasing the value of information in their possession and the amount of Return on Investment (ROI). Research and application of BIM in FM are lagging behind similar efforts in design and construction. Information management is a major threat facing FM practice where the multidisciplinary activities demand extensive information requirements. Lack of accurate transmission of building information from the earlier stages of a building project to FM professionals leads to a significant loss in the quality of building information for operational needs, significant costs and rework, impedes the promotion of an automated FM practice integrated and a life-cycle oriented construction. This paper reviews current literature to gain an overview of the significant challenges to the demand and supply of critical data for FM in a BIM model. It also sought to understand efforts addressing these chall...
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Building information modelling (BIM) is the most recent facility management (FM) technology adopted in Malaysia. However, management and information technology (IT) system improvements are required for the adoption of this technology. Incorporating BIM and FM at an early stage of a project has the potential to yield significant benefits but may also increase project risk. Through a survey, this study aims at investigating the prospective benefits and challenges of BIM-FM integration in the early phases of a BIM project. 109 (55.6%) of the 196 facility management companies in Klang Valley answered a questionnaire survey that was sent to them. To determine the perceived benefits and obstacles of the integrated BIM-FM process, mean scores and standard deviations were computed. As a result, respondents perceived positively that integrating BIM-FM in the early phase of the BIM project will increase performance, improve collaboration and communication, increase FM business values, and red...
Towards facilities information management through BIM
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Information plays a significant role in managing built environment facilities. These information are generated at different lifecycle stages, by different parties, which also provide different values to a variety of stakeholders. The acquisition of appropriate information efficiently and effectively is two of highly important considerations in facilities management because of the nature of information flows, number of information providers and users. Building Information Modelling (BIM) is one of the popular mechanisms, which has adopted in construction sector to manage its information. This preliminary paper investigates how construction information is valued in facilities management. This is an initial step of understanding the possibilities and hindrance of using BIM as an effective vehicle to manage information during the facilities management stage. To achieve this aim, data were collected through literature review and 13 semi-structured interviews among construction profession...
Building Information Modelling (BIM) for Facilities Management (FM)
International Journal of 3-D Information Modeling, 2012
Facilities Management (FM) as the total management of all services supports the core businesses of an organisation in a building. However, today’s buildings are increasingly sophisticated and the need for information to operate and maintain them is vital. Facility Managers have to acquire, integrate, edit, and update diverse facility information ranging from building elements, fabric data, operational costs, contract types, room allocation, logistics, maintenance, etc. However, FM professionals face challenges resulting in cost and time related productivity, efficiency and effectiveness losses. Building Information Modelling (BIM), that seeks to integrate the building lifecycle, can provide improvements and help to overcome those challenges. Thus, the paper explores how BIM can contribute to and improve the FM profession. It uses the MediaCityUK project as a case study, which is a regeneration project aiming to attract media institutions locally and worldwide and establish itself as...